On-Site Learning Coach: Relocation Support & Reading Impact

Alpha School; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Relocation allowance

Paid time off and parental leave

Job summary

Alpha School is hiring a Learning Coach to guide K-3 students through app-based core learning and targeted reading sessions on a full-time, on-site basis. You will diagnose gaps, design short sequences, and monitor progress with weekly data reports.

You’ll lead morning launches, life-skills activities, and reading interventions, staying with students through lunch and recess to maintain momentum and goals. A structured-literacy background and degree are required.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or similar settings.
• At least 2 years of that experience teaching reading in grades K-3, within the last 5 years.
• Completed structured-literacy training: LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading, or similar; or a master's in reading or literacy.
• Bachelor's degree in any subject. A teaching certificate is not required.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Coaching students through app-based core learning: spotting who is stuck, asking the question that unblocks them, holding the daily goal.
• Running targeted structured-literacy sessions with two to four students. Diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed, and checking for transfer.
• Leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities that keep six-year-olds moving.
• Driving students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification.
• Staying with your students through lunch, recess, closing, and reading interventions, meeting frustration and refusal with a plan for that child.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's in reading or literacy

Structured-literacy training

Legally authorized to work in the US

Job description

Alpha School is hiring a Learning Coach to guide K-3 students through app-based core learning and targeted reading sessions on a full-time, on-site basis. You will diagnose gaps, design short sequences, and monitor progress with weekly data reports.

You’ll lead morning launches, life-skills activities, and reading interventions, staying with students through lunch and recess to maintain momentum and goals. A structured-literacy background and degree are required.